Owen Martell

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Owen Martell was born in 1976 and grew up in Pontneddfechan, south Wales. His first Welsh‐language novel, Cadw dyffydd, brawd, written while a student at Aberystwyth, won the Arts Council of Wales' Welsh Book of the Year award in 2001. His second novel, Dyn yr Eiliad (The Other Man), was short‐listed for the same prize in 2004 and, according to one reviewer, is "a landmark in recent Welsh fiction". His most recent book is Dolenni Hud, a collection of six short stories set in “Welsh” towns in the United States, produced in collaboration with photographer Simon Proffitt and accompanied by Cymru Arall / Parallel Wales, an installation shown at The LAB in San Francisco in 2008. Owen Martell works also as a translator. His adaptation of Martin Crimp's Attempts on Her Life will be produced by the Sherman Cymru theatre, Cardiff, in summer/autumn 2009. www.owenmartell.com

Owen Martell's books - Wales Literature Exchange

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Word Express in Scotland
9th - 15th August
See a new generation of talented poets and translators Raman Mundair, Ryan van Wynkle, Marko Pogačar, Gokçenur Ç and Katerina Illiopoulou perform at this year's Edinburgh Book Festival.

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Found in Translation

"I’ve got this sickly taste in my mouth... "
Sian Melangell Dafydd
an extract and video from Sian Melangell Dafydd's The Third Thing

"Sitting up on the bed, you strain and plunge like a frogman among wobbegong dorsal fins."
Radu Vancu
three poems from Radu Vancu

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